SEARCH

Simple Query:
First select a search area from the drop-down menu, then enter words in the search field.

You can use the logical operators AND, OR, and NOT in your search. For example, assuming that "Author" is selected:
NOT McCarthy will return all ROA papers not written by authors whose name contain 'McCarthy'.
McCarthy AND Prince will return all ROA papers written by both McCarthy and Prince, and
McCarthy OR Prince will return all ROA papers written by either McCarthy or Prince, or both.
You can also use parentheses. For example, (McCarthy AND NOT(Prince OR Beckman)) will
return all papers written by McCarthy excepting those written by either Prince or Beckman.
In contrast, ((McCarthy AND NOT Prince) OR Beckman) will return all papers written by McCarthy
but not Prince, and all papers written by Beckman.
If you want to search different fields at the same time, click on "Advanced Search".
Note 1: The search is case insensitive, so "mccarthy", "McCarthy", "mcCarthy", etc.. are all treated the same.
Note 2: Search terms are treated as though they are conjoined with logical AND. For example,
Positional Faithfulness with Title selected will return all those papers with both "Positional"
or "Faithfulness" anywhere in their titles. To force the search to treat a phrase as a single term, enclose it
in quotation marks " ". i.e. "Positional Faithfulness" will find only those titles with that
exact term.

Advanced Query:
The advanced search page provides a far more powerful search interface. It allows you to enter phrases and conjoin them with logical AND or OR, and to negate terms. The advanced search page has four text boxes preceded by field and negator menus, and followed by an operator menu.

Unlike the Basic search interface, each term is treated as a single phrase. So, entering positional faithfulness in a term box will only find those articles with the term positional faithfulness in them. It is equivalent to enclosing the whole term in quotation marks "".

Note that one of two wildcards may be used:

% stands for any sequence of characters. For example, p%l will return entries with pill, pool, and positional.
_ stands for one character. For example, p__l will return entries with pill and pool, but not positional.

Expert Query Syntax:
The expert search is for those users who want to have highly structured queries.
The search term is described like an aspects style grammar.

1. Query-> field=value

2. Query-> field="value1 value2..."

3. Query-> ( Query )

4. Query-> NOT Query

5. Query-> Query AND Query

6. Query-> Query OR Query NOT has precedence over AND, which has precedence over OR.

Fields are:

Abstract = abstract
Area = area
Author = author
Comment = comment

Email = author e-mail address
Formats = file format
FirstName = author’s first name
Keywords = keywords
Kind = type of work
LastName = author’s last name
Title = title
University = author’s university

Examples:
Title=tone AND Author=Bickmore
(Title=tone AND Author=Bickmore) OR Formats=TXT (Title=tone AND Author=Bickmore) OR (Formats=TXT AND NOT Area=Phonology) NOT (Title="tone and" AND LastName=Bickmore) OR Kind=Manuscript

Search results:
If your search is successful a list of search results will be presented to you, just as in the list view. You may navigate through these results using the Next and Previous buttons.